From the Richmond Sentinel, 1/7/1864, p. 1, c. 4

Confederate States District Court, Yesterday. – Upon
the petition of George W. Johnson, who states that he is illegally detained in
custody by Major James B. McCaw, and alleges that he is exempt from service in
the armies of the Confederate States, from the fact that he is a First
Lieutenant in the 74th regiment of Virginia militia, regularly
commissioned and qualified, a writ of habeas corpus was awarded him,
returnable on Monday next, the 11th inst.

The hearing of numerous applications for discharges, which
still remain undecided, was postponed till future days.